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125 years of Kodaikanal Solar Observatory
April 6 , 2024
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- Kodaikanal Solar Observatory (KSO) is India’s oldest and one of the world’s oldest solar observatories.
- On 1st April, the observatory celebrated its 125th birth anniversary.
- The observatory, started in the year 1899, is set an altitude of 2100 m on top of the pretty hills in the lap of the Western Ghats.
- It has a continuous daily record of the Sun, with over 1.2 lakh digitised solar images.
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